10 Great Movies With 10% Or Less On Rotten Tomatoes
2. The Cat In The Hat (10%)
It cannot be understated how much vitriol was directed Mike Myers' way when he starred in this mega-budget adaptation of Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat at the height of his fame and popularity.
Landing just 10% approval from critics and receiving a staggering ten Razzie nominations, it was a public punching bag. And while The Cat in the Hat is admittedly not a good kids' film - enough that Seuss' widow refused any future live-action adaptations of his work - it is a great film for adults.
Budgeted at a paint-huffingly insane $109 million, 2003's The Cat in the Hat is basically a work of experimental cinema trojan-horsed inside a family-friendly tentpole.
This is exactly the sort of madcap romp you should expect when you let people who wrote episodes of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm - and later helmed the sex comedy Eurotrip - make a Dr. Seuss movie.
An 82-minute absurdist sprint, The Cat in the Hat eschews the expected broad humour in favour of more deranged comedic cuts, such as the Cat's (Myers) hat going "erect" when he stares at a picture of Kelly Preston's character Joan Walden, and Paris Hilton making a most unexpected cameo.
Shot with eye-popping flair by legendary, Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and crammed with creative production design like somebody's life depended on it, this is a bold, hard swing for the fences.
It doesn't always work, but it's tough not to respect the go-for-broke insanity of it all. One suspects it would've gone down better with the more switched-on, media-savvy youth of today.